Quote from: frogwithADD on June 22, 2012, 08:29 pmQuote from: vlad1m1r on June 22, 2012, 06:42 amWe also have my personal favourite where individual brokers offer you the opportunity to indirectly invest in an asset like the precious metals market. The promised returns are much smaller than the "Pirate" bonds (around 0.77% per week) but this is still light years ahead of what a savings account will pay. I have recently bought a number of shares in these kinds of schemes - the broker in question is Chinese so I imagine he's playing the Shanghai stock exchange off against shares in New York and London but it's easy to see why he wants my money to invest and how it is in his interest to guarantee a certain rate of return. Of course he is doing the hard work by spreading investments across a number of companies involved in the silver trade for example but that doesn't need to concern investors as you get your 0.77% per week regardless. Are these investments in USD or BTC? Are they available to the public? It is a good option assuming methods are more transparent, and these commodities (precious/rare-earth metals) are always going up to satisfy an ever growing demand.Hi FrogwithADD,As I mentioned the investments are in Bitcoin - this might be a problem if BTC take a dramatic nosedive but so long as it remains more stable than your base currency and/or the promised interest rates then you're made. I agree this is a much safer investment than some of the other assets I've seen - if you want to get in to safer investments, send me a message. I don't mean to sound all mysterious but I also don't want people to lose their Bitcoins by trying to do too much too soon just because they read my posts!All the best,V.